Baba Brinkman - Fatalist lyrics
[Baba Brinkman - Fatalist lyrics]
It takes individuals to make statistics
With sophistication the shapes get shifted
The risks we take make the race ballistic
So shake your fist or get fatalistic
I’ve gotta make a list of reasons
Why I’m not a fatalist
That’s not a way to live with the weight
Of this world the way it is
You can push paperclips for the
Sake of your kids
Or shake your tit's and wait tables
For minimum wage and tips
Or relax in a state of bliss
Trapped in the Matrix
Watching the latest clips
Of fallen dictatorships
Eating potato chips with flavourless dips
But to achieve weightlessness
You must believe you created this
Whether it’s done consciously
Or unconsciously
Whether you walk nonchalantly
Or run constantly
Whether you live under palm trees or
March to the drum’s beat
Complicity comes back to haunt your sleep
And pride and obstinacy, like monsters, creep
Inside these songs of freedom the
Soul longs to speak
You gotta sow if you wanna reap still
Karma runs deep sometimes you can’t see the
Cause of cosmic grief
It takes individuals to make statistics
With sophistication the shapes get shifted
The risks we take make the race ballistic
So shake your fist or get fatalistic
In the East
Soldiers roam with raging hormones
With radiophones they bring the
Sword to stones
And lay poor bones to decay in war zones
As the oldest poems and ancient lore known
Gets ignored and thrown on the
Floor when the door’s blown
Looters roar home there’s no more shalom
A sore groan rises from inside the Sorbonne
As another throne tries for the glory of Rome
And when the mousetraps close
Send in the backhoes
And start drillin’ the plateaus
Lookin’ for black gold
Wherever the map shows gas, tank tracks go
G i joe attacks… Damascus ho!
It’s like, first to act, last to know
Ain’t that so but even the biggest assholes
And total wackos
Must have souls that reflect the supernatural
They just catch colds and
Forget about the macro
It takes individuals to make statistics
With sophistication the shapes get shifted
It takes individuals to make statistics
With sophistication the shapes get shifted
It takes individuals to make statistics
With sophistication the shapes get shifted
The risks we take make the race ballistic
So shake your fist or get fatalistic
Spirit sickness grows deep as we dig ditches
And pig pen pit's, asleep to the big pictures
And even those who witness the
Sickness just get suspicious
And turn to scriptures lookin’ for
Reasons to burn witches
There’s so many pernicious ways
To earn riches
And so many kitchens bursting with
Vermin and dirty dishes
I hope the first thirty-six
Courses were delicious and worth every risk
‘cause dessert’ll be vicious
Like a circle with the center
Waitin’ patient for penetration
Like a flag incineration on
A day of veneration
In a veteran’s parade, afraid of intimidation
A sleeping dragon’s been awakened
And the next generation
Will face the implications and
Waste their innovations
Building gates to defend their nation
Against the hateful vengeance taken
On the same men impatient to put limitations
On reproductive freedom and call
It bush administration credit's
With sophistication the shapes get shifted
The risks we take make the race ballistic
So shake your fist or get fatalistic
I’ve gotta make a list of reasons
Why I’m not a fatalist
That’s not a way to live with the weight
Of this world the way it is
You can push paperclips for the
Sake of your kids
Or shake your tit's and wait tables
For minimum wage and tips
Or relax in a state of bliss
Trapped in the Matrix
Watching the latest clips
Of fallen dictatorships
Eating potato chips with flavourless dips
But to achieve weightlessness
You must believe you created this
Whether it’s done consciously
Or unconsciously
Whether you walk nonchalantly
Or run constantly
Whether you live under palm trees or
March to the drum’s beat
Complicity comes back to haunt your sleep
And pride and obstinacy, like monsters, creep
Inside these songs of freedom the
Soul longs to speak
You gotta sow if you wanna reap still
Karma runs deep sometimes you can’t see the
Cause of cosmic grief
It takes individuals to make statistics
With sophistication the shapes get shifted
The risks we take make the race ballistic
So shake your fist or get fatalistic
In the East
Soldiers roam with raging hormones
With radiophones they bring the
Sword to stones
And lay poor bones to decay in war zones
As the oldest poems and ancient lore known
Gets ignored and thrown on the
Floor when the door’s blown
Looters roar home there’s no more shalom
A sore groan rises from inside the Sorbonne
As another throne tries for the glory of Rome
And when the mousetraps close
Send in the backhoes
And start drillin’ the plateaus
Lookin’ for black gold
Wherever the map shows gas, tank tracks go
G i joe attacks… Damascus ho!
It’s like, first to act, last to know
Ain’t that so but even the biggest assholes
And total wackos
Must have souls that reflect the supernatural
They just catch colds and
Forget about the macro
It takes individuals to make statistics
With sophistication the shapes get shifted
It takes individuals to make statistics
With sophistication the shapes get shifted
It takes individuals to make statistics
With sophistication the shapes get shifted
The risks we take make the race ballistic
So shake your fist or get fatalistic
Spirit sickness grows deep as we dig ditches
And pig pen pit's, asleep to the big pictures
And even those who witness the
Sickness just get suspicious
And turn to scriptures lookin’ for
Reasons to burn witches
There’s so many pernicious ways
To earn riches
And so many kitchens bursting with
Vermin and dirty dishes
I hope the first thirty-six
Courses were delicious and worth every risk
‘cause dessert’ll be vicious
Like a circle with the center
Waitin’ patient for penetration
Like a flag incineration on
A day of veneration
In a veteran’s parade, afraid of intimidation
A sleeping dragon’s been awakened
And the next generation
Will face the implications and
Waste their innovations
Building gates to defend their nation
Against the hateful vengeance taken
On the same men impatient to put limitations
On reproductive freedom and call
It bush administration credit's